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What is the dark medicine that the barber turned into a doctor in the Middle Ages?
Bloodletting enema is a trivial matter, and there are all kinds of strange treatments such as swallowing corpses with iron, and the doctors who perform all this are usually barbers. As we all know, the development of modern medicine has been quite slow. In modern times with all kinds of advanced instruments, the development of medicine is still so difficult. Then in the middle ages, it must be more exciting. At least there are TCM classics summarized by predecessors in China, such as Huangdi Neijing and Treatise on Febrile Diseases, but not abroad.

So, at first, people in the Middle Ages got sick and went to the hospital. But the hospital will not give them normal treatment, but let them pray. They think that people get sick because they are sinful, and only after pious prayer can they get rid of sin, and then they will get well naturally. Of course, this is completely impossible. And because astrology is popular abroad, they have their own set of astrology medicine, that is to say, according to which constellation and which house you go to, if you are unfortunately sick in a month that is not suitable for treatment, then the doctor will tell you, sorry, come back when xx month is suitable for treatment.

So someone tried to correct the mistake? Body fluid theory? However, this theory eventually caused a huge disaster. Everyone agrees that the theory of body fluid is correct. If someone is sick, it must be too much body fluid. What if there is too much body fluid? And bleed! Let them out, and people will be fine. Hundreds of milliliters of blood lying around, good people will be tortured to death.

And what about all this so-called responsibility? Doctor? In fact, they are generally folk hairdressers. Because they are good at dancing scissors and other knife techniques, they are naturally appointed as doctors to bleed patients and even perform craniotomy and amputation. It was not until the 19th century that Europeans discovered the cause that this dark medicine completely withdrew from the historical stage.